Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of motorcycle licences issued in each of the last three years.
The specific information requested is not held. However, there are currently around 3.7 million drivers in Great Britain who hold entitlement to drive a motorcycle. The number of licences issued in each of the last three years following a notification of a motorcycle test pass being received by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is shown in the table below:
Year | Number of motorcycle licences |
2015 | 36,939 |
2016 | 39,492 |
2017 | 41,150 |
2018 | 30,870 |